Campaign Digest

YOUNG 'CLOWNING': Civil rights leader Andrew Young said 46-year-old Barack Obama is too young to be president, and he also said former President Bill Clinton "is every bit as black as Barack." The former UN ambassador said Clinton has "probably gone with more black women than Barack," then added, "I'm clowning." Young, 75, made the remarks in a TV interview on the urban forum "Newsmakers Live" that was posted on the Newsmakers Journal's Web site; it was unclear when Young made the remarks.

NO RETRACTION: GOP candidate Mike Huckabee said he will not run from his statement 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated. Huckabee acknowledged the prevailing scientific view then, and since, that the virus that causes AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but he said that was not certain when he made the statement in 1992.

2ND BACKER BOUNCED: Hillary Clinton's campaign requested the resignation of a second Iowa volunteer coordinator who forwarded a hoax e-mail saying Barack Obama is a Muslim possibly intent on destroying the country. Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ and says he has never been a Muslim.